We learn Russian actively

"The “We learn Russian actively” project involved students of four schools from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. The coordinator of the project was Szkoła Podstawowa im. Wspólnej Europy in Zalesie Górne in Poland. The main language of the project was Russian. The students attending Russian classes had opportunities to use their knowledge and skills while working on the project tasks. We hoped it to improve the children’s motivation. The main objective of the project was to improve communication skills in Russian among the students of the partner schools, with the emphasis on the vocabulary connected with kids games and activities, proverbs, food recipes, children literature and geography. The indirect aims of the project covered: - familiarizing the students with the chosen TIK tools, eg. Storyjumper, Padlet, Kahoot; - experience-sharing among the teachers of the partner schools; - enriching the educational offer of the partner schools; - promoting the culture of the participants’ countries. 749 partner schools’ students aged 12 - 15 participated in the project activities. While the project was running, four meetings were planned to be held in partner schools. The first one were took place in Poland in December 2018, the second one in Lithuania in May 2019, the third one in the Czech Republic in October 2019, and the last one in Latvia in May 2020. 6 students and 2 teachers from each school took part invited in the meetings. We also wish to invite students with educational difficulties and students from low income background. The methods of work adopted to meet the objectives included: teamwork, integration games, texts analysis, mini dialogues and language games. The following results have been activied: - enhancing the knowledge on geography, children literature and traditional food of the partner countries - teaching the students engaged in the project how to use the Storyjumper, Padlet and Kahoot programmes - expanding the professional qualifications of the Russian teachers from the partner schools; - improving the ability to promote one’s country; - raising the prestige of the schools in their local environment; - adding the European dimension to the schools. The tangible results of our work included: - audiobooks created in the Storyjumper programme, the Book of Proverbs; - the Gallery of Fairy Tales Characters prepared in Padlet - Kahoot quiz - photo and video reports on the concerts and shows. The cooperation on the project has enriched the educational offer of all partner schools. We have introduced to the learning plan of the Russian language extra topics, , Proverbs and riddles, Fairy tales , Culinary workshops, and to the annual schedule of school events ""Russian language day"" and ""European Culture Week"". We strived to make the Russian language more attractive by introducing the ICT tool into the teaching and learning process."